Category: Web

Migrated To WordPress MU 2.7

Thanks to Donncha’s ever amazing work, I’ve finally upgraded my site from WordPress MU 2.6.5 to WordPress MU (WPMU) 2.7. There were some hiccups during the initial WPMU 2.7 beta upgrade, so I ended up wiping all the WordPress files except for my config file (wp-config.php) and the contents of blogs.dir inside the wp-content folder and re-uploading all the files from the stable release WPMU 2.7. So for those who are having a problem with their WPMU installation after an upgrade, you could always delete everything but the wp-config.php file and blogs.dir folder and re-upload all the files fresh. I’ve found doing a drag-and-drop via FTP of new files on top of old files has never failed to produce errors. Another good option might be Subversion.

So how is the new WordPress MU 2.7, the new user interface, and functionality? Well so far, it’s excellent. Read on to hear more about my thoughts on the new WPMU 2.7. Continue reading Migrated To WordPress MU 2.7

SlideShowPro, SlideShowPro Director, and WordPress

For my photography site, I’ve been trying to figure out a way to best display slideshows quickly and easily on a WordPress install, as my photography site is entirely run by WordPress. After a bit of research, and trial & error, I’ve got the perfect technique down. Continue reading SlideShowPro, SlideShowPro Director, and WordPress

WordPress 2.6.3 and Media Flash Uploader

I’ve been having a problem for the last four days trying to figure out why the WordPress 2.6.3 Media Flash Uploader hasn’t been working. I would click and click the button but it wouldn’t pop-up the file browser to select the files for upload. I thought it was a plugin issue, but finally figured out what the problem was: I foolishly updated to Adobe Flash player version 10. Continue reading WordPress 2.6.3 and Media Flash Uploader

Problems With Donncha’s Domain Mapping Plugin

I have been using Donncha’s very cool WordPress MU plugin, Domain Mapping, for awhile now with great success. Before anyone thinks anything, this post isn’t to highlight anything bad about the Domain Mapping plugin, but rather assure other users they are not alone when they experience issues with using the plugin. Donncha is a great assets to the WPMU community and he is obviously very busy with Automattic projects. Continue reading Problems With Donncha’s Domain Mapping Plugin

How To Embed Videos Into WordPress Without Plugins

I’ve tried numerous of plugins to display flash video on my blog from sites like YouTube.com, but in a lot of cases, the plugins didn’t play well with other plugins, wouldn’t display anything, or just plain didn’t work. Fed up with all the issues, I had an idea to use the custom fields feature to embed video to posts much like how I embed thumbnails and do featured images. Continue reading How To Embed Videos Into WordPress Without Plugins

Permalinks, Link Rot, Google PR: A Solution To The Nightmare

One of the biggest topics in the blogsphere today is SEO, search engine optimization, a concept that is fairly important if you want your website/blog to be popular on the web. For this post, I’m not going to be focusing so much on SEO, even though this has to do with SEO, but rather on just permalinks. Continue reading Permalinks, Link Rot, Google PR: A Solution To The Nightmare